This lift was relocated from elsewhere on the mountain to service a new real estate development in 2007.This used to be the drive station for the Sunrise/Sunset up and over lift.Lift line threading the needle.Breakover towers.View down from the summit.New Doppelmayr CTEC compact terminal with tensioning.Unloading ramp and top bullwheel.
This lift came from the Sunrise/Sunset triple. The towers sat in the upper most north lot for years. Bottom terminal sat in place until the opening of the spot terrain park around when Gunnar 6 was built. Also, because Sunrise/Sunset was an up and over lift, calling the southwind bottom terminal a former upper terminal isn’t entirely accurate.
They shuffled around multiple lifts when the Polar Bear Express was built. The Tahoe Quad which it replaced was moved to be an infill lift on the back side, called North Pole. That eliminated the need for the Sunrise/Sunset lift. The other side was already redundant with the Blitzen lift. Are you sure this lift came from Sunrise/Sunset or was it the old Gunnar Triple?
In it’s original configuration and installation, this was the first lift that CTEC manufactured and installed after Thiokol stopped producing lifts and CTEC came into existence. These CTECs were essentially Thiokol lifts until CTEC came out with newer designs in the 1980s.
My thought was the old Gunnar triple as well. Sunrise/Sunset doesn’t seem to make much sense to me. It probably would have needed a lot of maintenance as I could count on one hand how many times I saw that lift in operation over the years.
This is a terribly slow lift with very long load intervals.
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The trail map inaccurately listed this as a high speed 6 pack for several years.
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Here is a map where its inaccurately listed as a 6CLD:
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This lift came from the Sunrise/Sunset triple. The towers sat in the upper most north lot for years. Bottom terminal sat in place until the opening of the spot terrain park around when Gunnar 6 was built. Also, because Sunrise/Sunset was an up and over lift, calling the southwind bottom terminal a former upper terminal isn’t entirely accurate.
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Why did they remove the sunrise/sunset triple. An up and over lift is basically two lifts for the price of one lift.
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It never really served any useful terrain. It only got you to the low side of the top of each of the slopes it served.
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They shuffled around multiple lifts when the Polar Bear Express was built. The Tahoe Quad which it replaced was moved to be an infill lift on the back side, called North Pole. That eliminated the need for the Sunrise/Sunset lift. The other side was already redundant with the Blitzen lift. Are you sure this lift came from Sunrise/Sunset or was it the old Gunnar Triple?
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In it’s original configuration and installation, this was the first lift that CTEC manufactured and installed after Thiokol stopped producing lifts and CTEC came into existence. These CTECs were essentially Thiokol lifts until CTEC came out with newer designs in the 1980s.
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My thought was the old Gunnar triple as well. Sunrise/Sunset doesn’t seem to make much sense to me. It probably would have needed a lot of maintenance as I could count on one hand how many times I saw that lift in operation over the years.
This is a terribly slow lift with very long load intervals.
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My vote goes to Gunnar triple it makes sense it was removed in 2007 and this lift was installed in 2007
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nope nevermind the terminals match up to the sunrise/sunset lift.
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